Written Reviews

Lauren Groff: “Dogs Go Wolf”

August 21, 2017

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Lauren Groff’s “Dogs Go Wolf.”

Alice Munro Friend of My Youth

Alice Munro: Friend of My Youth

August 18, 2017

Betsy and Trevor are moving on to the latter half of Alice Munro’s career, starting their story-by-story examination of her 1990 collection Friend of My Youth. This post provides an overview of the book as well as links to the reviews as they post.

Andrés Barba: Such Small Hands

August 17, 2017

The starting point for this strange little novel by Spanish novelist Andrés Barba was a ghastly game in a Brazilian orphanage in the 1960s. Trevor takes a look at Barba’s Such Small Hands, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.

The Criterion Collection Announces November 2017 Releases

August 16, 2017

Today The Criterion Collection announced its November 2017 releases.

Giveaway! César Aira’s The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof

August 16, 2017

Two books in one? For free? Two books by the great César Aira, no less? Yes! Come in to join the giveaway!

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